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Post by mfwilkie on Apr 15, 2008 22:25:55 GMT -5
Just like any other place, there are rules
for escaping life's day to day race—
the first being a willingness to get naked.
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Post by Jo Lynn Ehnes on Apr 16, 2008 17:02:47 GMT -5
I'm with you there, friend.
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Post by pelos on Apr 21, 2008 22:15:59 GMT -5
what a giggle I got out of this. It seems so true to. Love it - pelos
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Post by Ron Buck (halfshell) on Apr 25, 2008 8:48:24 GMT -5
Mags:
nicely said and nicely done!
perfect clicks!
tidings
ron
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Post by LynnDoiron on Apr 25, 2008 13:27:25 GMT -5
I feel about as sharp as a marble. I always love the language, rhythm, sound, texture in your lines, M, but I don't know/get the connection to Moby. I can only think of the whale, of Ahab's ultimate demise. So I read this as a memo to one's nemesis, whatever that may be, and and and -- I get no closer to understanding, connecting. yours truly, the marble
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Post by purplejacket on Apr 26, 2008 7:35:03 GMT -5
I am also quite capable of rolling around. You're not alone, Lynn.
Ahh, but then a thought - a memory? - confirmed by the husband. When Ahab jumps on Moby, he's naked.
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Post by LynnDoiron on Apr 26, 2008 12:04:04 GMT -5
Wow. If that's the case, then what an amazing poem.
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Post by ramadevi on Apr 26, 2008 15:00:20 GMT -5
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Post by LynnDoiron on Apr 26, 2008 16:18:02 GMT -5
Okay. So my May/Summer AWP Chronicle arrived and I'm reading an article by Reginald Shepherd "On Difficulty in Poetry" and it just seemed so appropos [is that how you spell that?] to quote some of that article here: "... good poetry can and should give pleasure before it's understood. As Wallace Stevens noted of his supreme fiction, it must give pleasure. It is the pleasure that makes one want to understand the poem." Reginald Shepherd goes on to say "... give the reader something in terms of language, imagery, rhythm, etc., to make the poem a sensual experience. Understanding something can be a pleasurable experience (it can also be intensely painful), but in poetry as in life, there are other pleasures than understanding. In Billy Collins's words, "Surely, you can enjoy a poem before you understand it ... The grasping of a poem's meaning, however provisional it may be, is only one of the many pleasures that poetry offers."
Had to share some of this article here, with this Memo to Moby that brings such pleasure, even when understanding is "provisional". . . .
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Post by David Nelson Bradsher on Apr 27, 2008 10:19:55 GMT -5
Mags, was this a reference to MOby Dick or to Moby the alt-rocker? Inquiring minds want to know. Either way, I love the advice.  |
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